Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-22

might get good real stories-novelists
mean" he went on presently thinking
was incumbent CD him to say some
thing. "I've come across q lot of once
things myself"
The lady seemed amused at the eviJen
bsshfulness Of this good-looking gentle
man and determined TO make him talk
"What do you call queer things?" she de
handed.
ooh, l don't know. Well, now, Their
Was that rob berry OF that bank in New Yorl
i've or SIX weeks ago. know fellow
/ he's one Of the directors he's told me
10. Of funny things about that. And ther
/ some Of the things about the way the mu
/ niCipal government is carried on thinl
they're very queer. But of course In
not IN the way Of knowing half as many
things as grest many other people. Blu
/ I beg your pardon-I didn't mean to take
/ Up your time"
I "Not at al, It's long time before
we get 20 Washington. What robbery
was that you were speaking ot?n
"O1, that was the bank down on Broad,
way sOmewheTe-the Manhattan they call
it-sOme fellows got in there and stole 8
whole LOT Of stuff Two or three millions,
my friend said. Don't you remember it?''
"Yes-I suppose everybody remembers
tbRt-it was such little while age" the
lady replied, in her Indifferent tone.
They had already entered the Philadel-
phia station, and the gentleman turned to
lOOl out Of the window. His interlocutor
improved the opportunity TO examine him
carefully. He was evidently q club man,
one Of those Americans who live on an
income. n ~
genitor, who have been We'll brought up,
whose broad shoulders and strong hands
ave tEe result Of amateur athletics, and
who pass through life without any idea of
is more serious aims and experiences,
and with little occasion to use whatever
brains Providence may have gifted them
with. Assuredly, there could be no
possible hSTm in such parsonage.
WEen the train started again she re
sumed the conversation.
That Manhattan robbery seems 10 be
as much q mystery as almost all great
bank rO50eTies nave been" she remarked
"The police don't seem able to DO any
thing. | suppose they must have some
secret understanding with the thieves"
con. 90 you think so?'
"WelI, that is.what good many people
" -At1 lbL 7 YOU Ll4Lh So
"WeI, vOu see, il isn't what | think
mean, that's Of no consequence, and
dare say you're right. l WIS only going
by what my friend said"
"He believes in the police theG?n
What he told me was that no arrests
had been made yet because they didn't
want 10 begin until they had everything
ready. But they have been working
one VINO had q part in the robbery, and
Just wlere TO put their hsnds on them,
There's q lot Of queer details about it
that / don't remember; I've got such an
aWfuIly bad memory: but | remember |
thought it wss very clever of the police,
and there didn't seem to be any chance
OF the thieves escaping. Oh, one Of the
things he said was that the thieves never
would nave got into the bank il they
hadn't ceen helped by some of the banks
own people. There was-I can't think of
mis- name. but that's no matteT-wel, they
have been following him round ever since
the o53ery-shadowin they call it-and
they found out that he was-5ut l beg
your pardon! Am l boring your
"NO, indeed. 1t Is very kind of you TO
talk TO ne"
VII 4 III SIAC IKE lDy II you uUu /
mind. But that wasn't the funniest part
You know the thieves got complete plan
of the inside Of the vault and descrip-
ton Of the lock-one Of those combina-
ton locks, yOu know; and it wasn't the
employee that got that; II was somebody
else. This IS an aWfully funny pert; you'd
never imagine who It wss."
'.Do tell me-" said the lady, languidly.
"Well, il was G Iady-that is, | mean,
she holds the position of lady in New
York, and her husband is good man; he
made q fortune in business, but his part
ner turned out a scamp, and-however,
that is not what l was going to tell. This
LADY,"
WHAT is the lady name? This is quite
you know
"Weu, don't know Is | ought to tell
ier name. SHE'S in society, you know,
and, Of course, you or anybody might
meet her, you know, and"
'Are you acquainted with her your
self"
~ never met her, but l know of her.
She used TO have 3 sort of salon before
her husbands business trouble, and / 5
very intellectual and cultured snd al
hat, and they say she's awfuIly hand /
'Ome ard attractive"
"Wtl, what was il that she did?n
"WnY, somehow or other, she got &C
iusinted with man in town, not q gen
leman, al ell, but low sort Of trades |
nan, s diamond peddler named Grady, |
beg your pardon? The car makes such /
8 noise that didn't hear you"
II didn't say anything. Please go on.' /
"Oh, where was L Oh, yes-Grady. |
This Grady has g shop right opposite /
he bank with q room st the back, and |
ne gang Of thieves that robbed the bank /
lsed TO meet there and consult about .
hings, and Grady i awful rich, and be |
Ised 10 put up money to pay for getting
cady the Tobberiesthat the gangCOmmitted |
mi sometimes he would keep the bonds .
md things that they stole until they
.ould sell them. And this lsdy-or per
to 90 there, too, but it was
i ways arranged so that she shouldn't /
)e seen by any of the Others-by the
hieyes, | mean-and none Of them ever
Jaw Eher, though they knew that Grady
lad some one familiar with the inside of
he bank to help MIN. Oh, | forgot to
ell you that this lady had an account or
with the bank, and they knew
leTthere. ard one day she got one of the
,snk C1i:lals to take her inside,
ND that was one Of the ways
hat the thieves got their information
bout the vaults, etc. She gave it to
IrsdY and Grady gave it to them, and
irady paid her lot of money for it; in
act-it's a horrid thing to ssy-but real
:, you know, Grady used to pay sll her
ills aud keep her in pin money, and she
would leave her home in her carriage, as